Aaron H. Conrow

Aaron Hackett Conrow (born June 19, 1824 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † August 15, 1865 in Nuevo León , Mexico ) was an American lawyer , politician ( Democratic Party ) and officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

After his birth, Aaron Hackett Conrow moved with his family to Pekin , Illinois , where he spent his childhood. In 1840 they moved to Missouri , where they settled in Ray County . There he studied law . After his admission to the bar, he began practicing in Richmond . Governor Sterling Price named Conrow a judge of the Ray County's First Probate Court in 1855. He was also between January 1857 and January 1861 as a public prosecutor (English circuit attorney ) in five judicial districts.

Conrow was elected a Democrat to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1860 . In 1861 he represented Missouri as a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress and to the First and Second Confederate Congresses . Conrow was a proponent of slavery , so after the outbreak of the civil war he decided to fight for the newly founded Confederate States . In this regard, he set up the first company in Ray County and held the rank of colonel in the Missouri militia . After the war he left the United States because he feared for his life. The amnesty issued did not extend to the members of the Confederate Congress. On August 15, 1865, he was killed by bandits in Nuevo León, along with Confederate Brigadier General Mosby Parsons and four other men. His body was then transferred to Richmond, where he was buried in Shotwell Cemetery .

family

Aaron Hackett Conrow married Mary Ann Quesenberry, daughter of Lucinda and David H. Quesenberry, on May 17, 1828. The couple had six children together. Among them were David, Benjamin, William S. and Mamie.

Web links

• Aaron H. Conrow in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• A Missouri GenWeb Project
• Ray County Missouri Biographies C
• The Political Graveyard